Evening events, Drama

• Directed by: Abigail Anderson
• Written by: Philip King

Philip King's farce set in wartime 1944, where in sleepy Merton-cum-Middlewick the most urgent conflict seems to be over who is decorating the church pulpit for the Harvest Festival, until an escaped German POW enters the scene.

• Written by: Charlotte Hastings

Tread The Boards Theatre presents Charlotte Hastings's murder mystery. Set in 1947 as Britain emerges from the austerity of World War II the nurses and nuns residing at the hill top convent of Our Lady of Rheims must cope with an influx of desperate villagers whose homes are being swept away in fearful floods. A driver…

• Directed by: Steve Marmion
• Written by: Michele Levy-Bram (adapt)

An art dealer returns to Germany and still maintains a correspondence with his Jewish friend back in America. But dealing with austerity and recession and a rise in nationalism, their friendship soon becomes distorted. French actors Christian Clavier and Thierry Lhermitte star in Steve Marmion's staging of Kathrine…

• Directed by: James Hillier
• Written by: Doug Lucie

It maybe tense on the streets but a group of Oxford University graduates are blissfully unaware of the civil unrest that is surrounding them. Funnily enough, in both their world and outside, people are fighting for respect and control. Drama written by Doug Lucie.

• Directed by: Giles Croft
• Written by: Matthew Spangler (adapt)

The European premiere of the story of one man's attempt to find redemption for his failure to act, adapted by Matthew Spangler from Khaled Hosseini's novel which tells a story of growing up and friendship and betrayal against a backdrop of events from the fall of the Afghanistan monarchy to the rise of the Taliban.

• Directed by: Colin Woods
• Written by: John Godber

John Godber's play about a couple who win the lottery jackpot and the cracks which start to appear in their marriage.

• Directed by: David Manners
• Written by: David Manners

David Manners's drama based on the true story of George Joseph Smith, a serial bigamist who murdered a succession of wives at a variety of seaside locations by drowning them in a bath.

• Written by: Matthew Bulgo

A double bill of world premieres that tackle the subjects of loss and traumatic memory with startling, poetic vision.

• Directed by: Cecily Boys
• Written by: Tom Green

In a small Las Vegas hotel room, the up-and-coming comedian Tommy Cooper faces his first failure. A warring relationship with his manager, plus the prospect of his show's early closure, Cooper lashes out. Comedy-drama written by Tom Green.

Contemporary production of Pinter's most accessible work, a ruthless exploration of the complexity of the human heart.

• Directed by: Blanche McIntyre
• Written by: Harold Pinter

A powerful, unsettling and absurdly menacing story by Harold Pinter set in a seedy boarding house in an English seaside town. Directed by Blanche McIntyre.

• Written by: Dennis Potter

On a sunny summer afternoon during the Second World War in the Forest of Dean, a group of seven-year-olds play and squabble. But as the events of their childhood imaginations and loyalties develop, they take a distressing turn. The typical games of childhood reveal a capacity for brutality beneath their seeming innocence.

• Directed by: Michael Grandage
• Written by: Martin McDonagh

On the remote island of Inishmaan, word is that a Hollywood film is being made on the neighbouring island. Young Cripple Billy wants to be in the film, desperately. Daniel Radcliffe stars in the title role, in Martin McDonagh's comic play. Directed by Michael Grandage.

• Directed by: John Tiffany
• Written by: Lucas Hnath

The pensioner Maxine is convinced that her daughter is paying the nurse to kill her off, before the tax deadline approaches. Lucas Hnath's darkly comic tale is directed by John Tiffany. Not suitable for ages below 14.

A work-in-development on how five young women deal every day with being young, female and Black. Devised by Women in the Space.

Enter Stage Right presents Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

• Directed by: John Godber
• Written by: John Godber

John Godber's play that gets inside the world of elite female rugby with crashing tackles, rucking mothers and real life hookers.

The first theatrical staging of Hayao Miyazaki's renowned animated film, using giant puppets made from recycled materials, visceral, physical storytelling and original live music. Young warrior Ashitaka is a marked man. Cursed by a demon god whilst defending his village, he must leave his home forever to seek a cure.

• Written by: Nell Dunn

IDP Trading Ltd presents the hot and intimate world of an all-female steam room in London's East End. Starring Rebecca Wheatley (Casualty), Kim Taylforth (Bad Girls, London's Burning) and Michelle Morris (The Knock).

Set in the Italian city of Parma, this vivid and violent Jacobean tragedy depicts the collision of forbidden love against the machinations of a corrupt church and state. The result is passionate and poetic, gruesome yet darkly comic. This play is as shocking and controversial today as it was almost four hundred years ago.

• Written by: Bernard Shaw

Part romantic comedy, part family drama and part exploration of moral choices, George Bernard Shaw's first play reveals the skeletons that hide in even the most respectable of middle-class cupboards.

• Directed by: Maureen Bryan
• Written by: Lyn Wakefield

A charming tale of innocence and courage in a time of adversity unfolds to a nostalgic soundtrack of wartime songs. When a widowed farmer opens her home to eight Liverpool evacuees, all their lives are about to be changed forever.

Portsmouth's foremost amateur dramatics company, Humdrum, present 84 Charing Cross Road. In 1949, Helene Hanff, a New York-based writer, contacts an antiquarian book-shop in London Marks & Co. for help acquiring some volumes she wants to add to her collection.Manager Frank Doel replies to her letter. Thus begins one…

• Directed by: Steve Marmion
• Written by: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's drama about the pre-war friendship between a German man and a Jewish American, detailling how their relationship develops over time as the threat of nationalism and conflict looms. Directed Steve Marmion.